Not too surprisingly, it was a pair of Pokémon games for the Nintendo DS that sold better in Japan than anything else. Also not shocking is that the top ten games are dominated by titles for Nintendo platforms.

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Pokémon Black and White moved nearly 4.5 million copies in 2010, followed most closely by New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii, which scared up more than 4 million sales overseas. The only game in the top ten not to appear on Nintendo hardware was Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII for the PlayStation 3.

Sales tracker Media Create's numbers only run until the end of November, so one game is noticeably absent from the list: Monster Hunter Portable 3rd for the PSP. That game has already sold more than 3.1 million copies, which would make it the third bestselling game on this list... if it had been released at the right time.

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Without further ado, these were the biggest games in Japan this year. (Cumulative sales for games released before 2010 are in parenthesis.)